What is a Sticky?

Stickies, as the name suggests, is an application readily available on your Mac to let you stick your thoughts - in a form of small notes - on your Desktop.
Stickies reside inside Applications → Stickies.
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Reasons for using Stickies

Keep yourself organized...
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But for older students - 3rd grade and above maybe - they could use Stickies for note-taking while researching something online or at a website. It is especially cool when you see how Stickies can be 'transparent' so the students can see through to the web page:
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Put Pictures on Stickies?

Yes, you can:
To embed picture on your Stickies:
  1. Find your image file
  2. Drag and drop it into your stickies pane
  3. Adjust its position with Spacebar / Tab
  4. The picture is not resizable

Other Options?

  • You can change your stickies colors by clicking on the 'Color' menu bar item
  • You can make your Sticky translucent by clicking on the 'Note' menu bar item
  • You can change your font style and size by clicking on the 'Font' menu bar item and select 'Show Fonts.'
  • You can print your Sticky note by clicking on the 'File' menu bar item
  • and you can Save your Stickies by clicking on the 'header' of the Sticky and click the 'close' button - top left corner - and it will ask if you want to save your Sticky.

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10 Tips for Using Stickies.


Go to this site for great tips and tricks:http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/10-tips-for-stickies.html